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MASSAGETAE

Volume 12 · 46 words · 1815 Edition

an ancient people about whose seat there is as much doubt as about that of the Amazons; Tibullus and Ammian place them near Albania, beyond the Araxes, which sometimes denotes the Oxus; it is probable they dwelt to the east of Sogdiana, (Dionysius Periegetes, Herodotus, Arrian).